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The issue is they have been doing me too mentality for the last 3 years.

Cheap GoPro eroded their margins, and ignored the fact that for most people their cell phone is good enough for video. Karma, and their gimbal is great, but products like Rylo saw the future as being motor-less. And after using it, I agree.

If the karma had built a battery-less Fusion, they would have had something that was new, instead of trying to play catch up and gerry-rigging a GoPro to a drone.

I still have hope, but they got take more risks and build their future not someone else's.

The Rylo camera looks amazing. If GoPro doesn't get something equivalent or better out in the next 6 months I think the Rylo camera will destroy them in the consumer market. It appears to take everything that's annoying about casually using a GoPro (aiming it, capturing steady video, tracking a subject) and make it go away, or be fixable in their app.

And you can buy it today.

Isn't their Fusion (https://shop.gopro.com/cameras/fusion/CHDHZ-101.html) camera supposed to be the equivalent of the Rylo? I see nothing the Rylo can do that it can't, although the Rylo looks far nicer doing it.

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